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English soccer in 1996 was anything but “The Beautiful Game.” Many of the best players were visibly unfit; many were known to drink the day before games and pay no attention to their diet; tactics that weren’t a bland take on the classic English 4-4-2 formation were universally rejected and players who weren’t British or

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Spring has finally sprung in South Bend, and while for many that’s a sign of impending final exams and summer vacation, it is also a signature time of year for the world of sports: It is the time of year during which every sport imaginable overlaps for a few short weeks. It is playoff time

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“A selling club.” It’s a term typically associated with not-so positive connotations in European soccer, and for a long time had been directed at Liverpool FC, mired in mediocrity for the last decade — bar runs at the title during the 2008-09 and 2013-14 seasons — falling from their title of kings of Europe. Being

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My almost four years of writing Sports Authority columns is coming to an end. I’ve had some good ones, but a lot of bad ones. Don’t worry, people let me know when I wrote a bad one. So for my final column, I wanted to be original. But then I remembered that my only original

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The baseball season is way too long. I love baseball. I grew up in a household where baseball, specifically the New York Mets, reigned supreme, and it’s my favorite sport to follow by far. And yet, I still have trouble making it a point of emphasis to tune in for a Tuesday night Mets game

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Tom Brady has five Super Bowl rings. Michael Jordan won six NBA championships. For many people, those facts alone seal their cases as the greatest athletes in the history of their respective sports. In a game where winning is the ultimate objective, they did it as well as anyone while staying elite players for extended

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I’m the saddest sports fan you know. I hail from the greater D.C. area, where young sports fans cry and everyone else’s hopes go to die. It has been 70 seasons since the city of Washington has been to a conference championship game in the four major sports (sorry MLS fans, no D.C. United here).

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The Stanley Cup Playoffs began Wednesday night, and there is certainly no shortage of storylines for the 16 teams competing for Lord Stanley’s chalice. First, you have one of the most surprising stories — not just in hockey, but perhaps in all of sports within the last decade — in the Vegas Golden Knights, who shocked

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For more than 600 Thursday nights, Club Fever stood as a light in downtown South Bend to the world. After tonight, Michiana’s self-proclaimed “hottest nightclub” will be no more. What will replace it? As of now, nobody knows. Thursday nights may never be the same (the vastly-overrated Finnies is far from an adequate consolation). Without

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As Tuesday’s Champions League results proved, sometimes all you need is an away goal. Both underdogs in Tuesday’s quarterfinal rounds — Liverpool and Roma — were able to advance to the semifinals over powerhouses Manchester City and Barcelona, respectively, through the timely scoring of goals away from home. After a scintillating 3-0 win at home